Posted on 04/01/2009 10:03:15 AM PDT by Notoriously Conservative
10. Tesco’s Whistling Carrots In 2002, Tesco ran a fake newspaper ad announcing the ‘whistling carrot,’ a carrot genetically modified to contain airholes on each side that caused the carrot to whistle when it finished cooking.
9. Lebanon Circle Magik Co.’s Mummified Fairy Lebanon Circle Magik Co., a studio specializing in sculptures and curios, posted a picture of what appeared to be a mummified fairy on its homepage in 2007. The site explained that the fairy had been found by pedestrian in rural Derbyshire, leading to an explosion of online speculation about whether the fairy was real. Even after owner Dan Baines revealed the hoax, people continued to believe the fairy mummy was real.
8. Signal-Disrupting Bras In 1982, the Daily Mail—a frequent April Fool’s prankster—reported that 10,000 locally manufactured bras were interfering with radio and TV broadcasts through an extremely conductive copper underwire. The metal in the underwire was normally used in fire alarms; body heat and nylon made it produce signal-disrupting static electricity.Quote: The chief engineer of British Telecom, upon reading the article, immediately ordered that all his female laboratory employees disclose what type of bra they were wearing.
7. Sports Illustrated’s Sidd Finch Sports Illustrated took advantage of April Fool’s Day in 1985 by publishing an article about Sidd Finch, a new Mets’ recruit with a 168-mph pitch. Finch had purportedly learned the “art of the pitch” from a Tibetan master named Lama Milaraspa. Mets fans went wild–until they learned it was a hoax.
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I posted a comment there. =o)
Sidd Finch was a great one.
I remember it too...
The BBC is impressive in their April Fool’s jokes. They really put in a lot of effort producing some of them, as opposed to just putting out a press release about GM and Chrysler not being in NASCAR next year.
bump...
"On November 5, 2008 American woke up to the startling hoax that Barak Obama had been elected President."
LMAO!!
biggest hoax of all time
May I have your attention! There is cake and ice cream in the conference room for everyone.
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